Takeshi Haguri was born 1957 in Nagoya, Japan. After graduating the Sculpture course at the Aichi University of the Arts in 1982, he moved on to a postgraduate course, graduating in 1984. Since then he has been sculpting in wood mainly, using aluminium for outdoor works.

The show will include a series of paintings on canvas and paper as well as mixed media. Exploring the role of dominant cultures and how power, politics and economics impact the voice of historically marginalized communities is a continuing interest for Cristi. A son of immigrant parents from Chile, growing up in predominantly Mexican-American East Los Angeles and eventually pursuing a formal arts education in the Northwest and Bay Area, has given him a unique perspective on questions of cultural identity especially for those outside dominant cultures.

We love Australian Singer-Songwriter Courtney Barnett’s rambling music and adore her album artwork—illustrations she’s done for the albums herself. On July 21st, Sugarlift and Mom + Pop are hosting a pop-up gallery of Courtney’s artwork—including art from her debut record, behind-the-scenes photographs of the making of the album and new photographs from her tour.

This Friday, July 24th Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia will be presenting Ingress/Egress, an exhibition by Hannah Stouffer and Hilary White. Ingress/Egres slightly balances its journey in a space created of compressed experiences, a meditative dialogue of depth and transcendence.

Wall Hop & Brass Brothers Films have teamed up on a video with Kevin Champeny, a sculpture and mosaic artist who’s work creates a conversation between the subject & the pixels that create the subject. The sum is greater than it’s parts and Champeny’s work embodies this idea...

Christmas comes in July, and there’s no age limit, especially for toy and comics aficionados. Riding on the happy heels of Comic-Con in San Diego, enthusiasts can slide right into The Art of Toys: A Left Coast Retrospective of Designer Toys at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California, which opened this weekend, July 18.

This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to examine psychedelic art produced in Orange County by the Mystic Artists, a loosely organized group of artists interested in alternative culture, mystical experience, and the transformation of society. These artists congregated and exhibited their art at Mystic Arts World, a head shop in Laguna Beach, which existed from 1967 to 1970.

Over the course of four years, photographer Carolyn Drake documented the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers from their endpoints to the source, creating a captivating and emotional body of work called Two Rivers. This region of focus for the photographer stretches from the western edge of China across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, spanning a distance of 2,500km.